GR8Conf EU crew published the video of @jeffscottbrown's talk Monitoring And Metrics With Grails 3 to Youtube. This was one of the talks which I was not able to attend and I was looking forward for the video. Unfortunately the video's audio is not great but I was able to follow with the auto generated subtitles.

Jeff explains the capabilities of the Grails DropWizard plugin with code examples.

How to setup meters and Timers

How to create a service triggered by a Job which outputs some of the captured metrics as log statements.

I am looking forward to connect this to a Dashboard app such as Numerics.

This ongoing series of blog posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) by Giridhar Pottepalem is step by a step tutorial to create a REST API connected to a PostgresSQL database, authenticated with Spring Security Core and Grails Spring Security REST plugin.

@GregorAmbrozic praises the adoption of Grails to speed up your development. You will find references to some of Groovy wonders (working with collections, manipulating dates) and some of the nice features which Grails offers: Conventions, GORM, Rich Plugin ecosystem...